Adenauer de Gaulle Prize

The Adenauer de Gaulle Prize is an award given to people who are committed to German-French cooperation. It is endowed with 10,000 euros and is awarded alternately in Germany and France. It is named after the former German Chancellor. D. Konrad Adenauer and the former President of the Republic of France Charles de Gaulle .

In the post-war period, both politicians ensured the reconciliation of the two Central European states that had consistently viewed each other as hereditary enemies during the two world wars. This reconciliation was sealed by the Élysée Treaty .

The award was launched on January 22, 1988 .

Award winners

• 1989: The Bureau International de Liaison et de Documentation (BILD) and the Society for Supranational Cooperation (GüZ)
• 1990: Ludwigsburg and Montbéliard , which entered into the first town twinning after the Second World War
• 1992: the patron Alfred Toepfer and the Germanist Prof. Pierre Grappin
• 1993: the twin cities of Heidelberg and Montpellier
• 1994: Reimar Lüst and Senator Pierre Laffitte
• 1996: Hans Lutz Merkle ( Robert Bosch GmbH ) and Airbus Industrie
• 1997: MP a. D. Hans Stercken and Brigitte Sauzay
• 1998: Heiko Engelkes and Anne-Marie Denizot
• 1999: Hanna Schygulla and Patricia Kaas
• 2000: Ulrich Wickert ( NDR ) and Daniel Vernet ( Le Monde )
• 2001: Anneliese Knoop-Graf and Hélène Viannay as representatives of the German and French resistance
• 2002: the regional partnership between Rhineland-Palatinate and Burgundy
• 2003: DeutschMobil and FranceMobile (award ceremony on January 22, 2004)
• 2004: the actors Audrey Tautou and Daniel Brühl (award ceremony on January 21, 2005)
• 2005: Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (award ceremony on January 24, 2006)
• 2006 the politicians Helmut Kohl and Jacques Delors (award ceremony did not take place for health reasons)
• 2008: the artists Anselm Kiefer and Christian Boltanski
• 2011: the conductor Kurt Masur and the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez (award ceremony on June 20, 2011)
• 2012: Edzard Reuter and Jean François-Poncet on behalf of the Evian entrepreneur meeting, which was launched in 1992 (award ceremony on January 24, 2012)
• 2013: The Franco-German Youth Office (award ceremony on July 5, 2013)
• 2014: the Franco-German TV channel ARTE
• 2016: the French city of Verdun
• 2017: the vocational schools in Kehl (award ceremony on November 6, 2017)
• 2018: the world hip-hop band Zweierpasch

Web links

• Adenauer de Gaulle Prize

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adenauer de Gaulle Prize - France-Allemagne.fr. Retrieved December 21, 2018 .